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• If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.

  Marilyn Manson

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• Right before I got ‘Sons of Anarchy,’ I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn’t read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

  Charlie Hunnam

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  Tags in Artist, Single

• I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, ‘What am I doing? This isn’t who I am, as a man or an artist.’ I had to overcome people’s belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

  Charlie Hunnam

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• The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and colour if the storm is not therein?

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

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• The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

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• I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

  Cheryl Strayed

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• A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don’t have those, you don’t have love.

  Neil Strauss

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  Tags in Artist, Good

• Great art inspires great art.

  Andrew Stanton

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• Remember I’m an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worse to an actress.

  Joyce Cary

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• All any artist can do is please themselves.

  William Shatner

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• My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like – strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.

  Ty Segall

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  Tags in Artist, Strict

• Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it’s never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

  John Scofield

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  Tags in Generally, Artist

• So I don’t think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

  Santi White

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  Tags in Musician, Artist

• I feel like ‘Next To Me’ is a great introduction because it’s a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I’m proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

  Emeli Sandé

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• The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Artist, Perfect

• Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it’s never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Scared, Artist

• Lucian Freud’s career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Artist, Talent

• Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Artist, Passed

• Calling a young artist ‘great’ these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

  Jerry Saltz

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• The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.

  Gustave Flaubert

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